How Should You Think About Employee Compensation?

brett fox
3 min readNov 10, 2020

“Hi Brett, it’s Carlos. Uh…”

“What’s the issue, Carlos?” I asked our HR VP.

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“You know the salary you wanted to pay your new engineer, Fred? “Bob” (the CEO) wants to reduce it by $20,000.”

“You’ve gotta be kidding,” I said. “I thought the offer was approved.”

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brett fox

I work with startup CEOs to help them grow their businesses . I built several businesses from $0 to >$100M. Learn more at https://www.brettjfox.com